Violent Games Good for Kids

[richard]

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 26, @05:21PM
from the contrary-wisdom dept.
fjordboy writes "Scholars from MIT, the University of California in LA, and the University of London have worked together to oppose laws restricting children from playing violent video games. The battle is currently taking place in the US Court of Appeals and the case seems to hold a decent amount of merit. From Vnunet:"Experts on childhood and adolescence have long recognised the importance of violent fantasy play in overcoming anxieties, processing anger, and providing outlets for aggression." Similar article from Reuters as well."

[katchoo]

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 26, @05:21PM
from the contrary-wisdom dept.
fjordboy writes "Scholars from MIT, the University of California in LA, and the University of London have worked together to oppose laws restricting children from playing violent video games. The battle is currently taking place in the US Court of Appeals and the case seems to hold a decent amount of merit. From Vnunet:"Experts on childhood and adolescence have long recognised the importance of violent fantasy play in overcoming anxieties, processing anger, and providing outlets for aggression." Similar article from Reuters as well."

i guess that study didn't include those kids from Korea that killed some folks because they "wanted to see what it was like in real life"

[Dahne]

Ooo, linkage, linkage!

i guess that study didn't include those kids from Korea that killed some folks because they "wanted to see what it was like in real life"

If somebody's saying things like that, it's a bit of a hint that they didn't need a video game's help to get screwed up in the head.

[brandver3]

I agree, if someone is to the point that they are murdering people and saying the games made them do it, then they were screwed up LONG before they ever picked up a game.

[Achika]

So, this is more like 'violence in games has no effect on children.' I didn't see anywhere that it was good for them....